Using a Fake Hand to Defeat Hand-Vein Biometrics

Schneier on Security 2019-01-11

Summary:

Nice work: One attraction of a vein based system over, say, a more traditional fingerprint system is that it may be typically harder for an attacker to learn how a user's veins are positioned under their skin, rather than lifting a fingerprint from a held object or high quality photograph, for example. But with that said, Krissler and Albrecht first...

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https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/01/using_a_fake_ha.html

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Tags:

authentication

Authors:

Bruce Schneier

Date tagged:

01/11/2019, 10:09

Date published:

01/11/2019, 07:38